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Designing and Developing Rubrics

Description

In this workshop, participants will learn to develop rubrics that can communicate expectations to students and help to facilitate grading. Rubrics can reduce the amount of time faculty spend writing feedback, and at the same time facilitate in making evaluation accurate. This rubrics workshop will assist participants in constructing and using scoring rubrics for instruction and evaluation purposes. Rubrics can be a useful tool for evaluating open-ended activities, written assignments, projects, and collaborative work. What are rubrics? Rubrics are used in measuring student learning. Rubrics are a systematic scoring method that uses pre-determined criteria. Communicate to students what comprises excellent performance and how students should evaluate their own performance. Rubrics foster accuracy and consistency in scoring. Rubrics document the procedures used to grade assignments. If you would like to examine examples of rubrics created by various universities please view the following links:

http://www.calstate.edu/acadaff/sloa/links/rubrics.shtml

http://www.an.cc.mn.us/assessment/rubrics.cfm

Prerequisites

• At least six months of continuous, hands-on experience using Microsoft PowerPoint on either a PC or a Mac.

Objectives

• Understand the concept and benefits of a rubric.
• Review guidelines for constructing rubrics.
• Write specific objectives for assignments and use the objectives to create a detailed rubric.
• Create specific rubrics for your course.
• Practice constructing rubrics and collaborate with colleagues.
• Research available rubric resources on the Internet and compile a list of hyperlinks.
• Receive sample rubrics for future reference.